> I've seen identical panics when using nmh's spost command to send > mail. Instant panic saying "negative ref cnt". This is using an NFS > mounted home directory (containing the draft mail to be sent). > Unfortunately, I didn't have time to investigate further, so I just > switched over to using SMTP instead.
We think we've sorted out this problem. Trying to make a cross device link to an NFS filesystem decreases the reference count twice, so if you do this a few times you can panic a machine. I've submitted a gnats report (kern/9970). David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message